what process is used to engrave a street number in brick?

[gabagoo]

I have a client asking me about this, but I am not sure if it an engraving process or a routering process.... I have not seen the sample yet, but assume it is etched and then filled with paint.... Anybody have any idea how they are done?

 

[J Hill Designs]

sandblasted on-site? I've done it on large boulders at driveway entrances in tahoe on occasion

 

[CES020]

I have a client asking me about this, but I am not sure if it an engraving process or a routering process.... I have not seen the sample yet, but assume it is etched and then filled with paint.... Anybody have any idea how they are done?

Sandblasted and painted.

 

[Baz]

Gravestone engravers? I think many of them have mobile setups.

 

[Shadowglen]

Gravestone engravers? I think many of them have mobile setups.

Yes special equipment and not cheap. I did it for 5 years Final dates on headstones big residential and commercial rocks with addresses or business logos. We did all of the donor bricks in a huge flag court at the local university. The blasting mask is cut with a plotter it is almost 1/8 thick you blast the design then blow out the blasted area and spray with Lithichrome paint. You need a constant air source so a screw drive compressor is needed. Talk to a funeral home and ask them who does the final dates for them and that will be your person for the job.

 

[Mosh]

Call a monument (gravestone) place. I have a local one I work with for stuff like this.

 

[gabagoo]

It was so obvious and yet I could not remember how it was done...Alzheimers must be setting in...

Thanks Guys~~

 

[Gino]

If the brick is in place, you're gonna pay a premium. If the client is bringing some bricks to you so they can give them out as memorials or mementos, the easiest is just blasting them and while the rubber is still on, lay the paint in there.

 

[bernie]

Sandblasting

Been doing it for almost more years than I can count anymore - both in my shop and on site.

Bernie